Remembering the Legendary Ending of The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart The final episode of Newhart aired on May 21, 1990, and gave us one of the most brilliant surprise endings in television history. In the closing moments, Bob wakes up beside Suzanne Pleshette, who played his wife Emily on his earlier sitcom The Bob Newhart Show (which ran from 1972 to 1978). It turns out the entire eight-season run of Newhart (1982–1990) had been a dream. Some might remember that Dallas used the “it was all a d